Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Summit provides chance to strengthen partnership with international community

Heads of State
and delegates from Africa and Latin America will come together from August
20-24, 2012, in Malabo, the
capital of Equatorial Guinea, for the 9th Leon H. Sullivan Summit.

The Sullivan
Summits are organized by the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation and held biennially in
an African nation to exchange views on important issues, highlight best
practices, stimulate discussion, define opportunities, promote private
enterprise and foster high-level strategic partnerships. It is the first internationally
recognized summit of world leaders convened on African soil by a private
foundation. The first summit
convened in 1991. Attendees at past summits have included President George W.
Bush and President William J. Clinton.

“The Leon H.
Sullivan Summit will provide an opportunity to strengthen partnership with the
international community,” said President Obiang Nguema
Mbasogo. “Equatorial Guinea welcomes attendees to see first hand the
advancement Equatorial Guinea has made in human development and human rights,
which is the Leon H. Sullivan Summit’s focal point.”

The “Africa
Rising” themed Summit will address human rights issues affecting African
nations, including food and human security, freedom of press, education,
building economies of opportunity and others. It will center on the
achievements and progress of the African continent.

Sipopo has also hosted events associated with the
African-South American Summit. It was the host of the African-South America
Forum, at which ministers of foreign affairs from 65 countries came together,
and it will host the summit at a later date this year. In June and July,
Equatorial Guinea hosted the African
Union Summit, also in Sipopo.